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Who were the other three members of the "Big Four" of western railroading?

  • Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, Charles Crocker

  • Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan

  • Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, James J. Hill

  • George Pullman, E.H. Harriman, Philip Armour

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The "Big Four" of western railroading consisted of Collis Potter Huntington, Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker. They were influential in the development of the Central Pacific Railroad and the first transcontinental railroad in the United States.
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